Robert Luce

Robert Luce ( born December 2, 1862 in Auburn, Maine, † April 7, 1946 in Waltham, Massachusetts ) was an American politician. Between 1919 and 1941 he represented two times the state of Massachusetts in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Robert Luce attended the public schools of his home and in Somerville. Then he studied until 1882 at Harvard University. He then spent a year as a teacher at Waltham High School. After that, he was active in journalism. In 1888 he founded the Luce 's Press Clipping Bureau in Boston and New York City, which he was president from time to time. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Republican Party launched a political career. In 1899 and 1901-1908 he was a deputy in the House of Representatives from Massachusetts. Not, however intense - After studying law and his 1908 was admitted to the bar he began to work in this profession. In 1910, he led the regional Republican convention in Massachusetts. In the years 1912 and 1913 was Robert Luce Lieutenant Governor of his state; 1914 to 1919 he was a member of the Pension Committee for Teachers in Massachusetts. He was also a 1917-1919 member of a commission to revise the State Constitution.

In the congressional elections of 1918, Luce was in the 13th electoral district of Massachusetts in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of William Henry Carter on 4 March 1919. After seven elections he could pass in Congress until January 3, 1935 eight legislatures. Since 1933 he represented as the successor of Charles L. Underhill the ninth district of his state. Between 1921 and 1923 he was Chairman of the Second Election Committee; 1923 to 1925 he headed the committee, which was responsible for the affairs of veterans of the First World War. In 1919, women's suffrage was introduced nationwide with the 19th Amendment. 1934 Luce was not confirmed.

In the 1936 elections but was then elected to Congress again in the ninth district, where he replaced Richard M. Russell back on January 3, 1937 which was two years before become his successor. After a re-election, he could spend up to January 3, 1941 two other legislatures in the U.S. House of Representatives. There, at that time more New Deal legislation of the Federal Government were adopted under President Franklin D. Roosevelt, which the Republican Party faced a rather negative. In 1940, Robert Luce was not re-elected. After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives, he took his previous activities on again. He died on 7 April 1946 in Waltham.